Improvement in liquor testers, filterers, and emptiers combined



W. F. HELLEN.

Liquor-Tester, Filterer and Empter Combined.

N0.|54,451. Patented1une15,l875.

WITNESSES v INVEJvToR THE GRAPHIC C0.PHOT0 -LITbLBS m41 PARK PLACLNY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

WILLIAM F. BELLEN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHARLES MGGANN, 0F SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LIQUOR TESTERS, FILTERERS, AND EMPTIERS COMBINED.

Specieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,451, dated June 15, 1875 application tiled April 28, 1875.

To all uhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WlLLrAM F. HELLEN, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, have invented an Improved Liquor Tester, Filterer, and Emptier Combined, and I hereby declare the following to be an exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in whichperforated plate or iilterer at the bottom of the tester.

The object of my invention is to insert the tester into a barrel through the bung-hole to draw out any required quantity of liquor, from a half-gill to a quart, by merely thrusting it in and ilnmediately drawing it out, saving` the time of sucking up or pumping up the liquor, as the operation of other testers.

A represents the metallicl or tin tube, from two to four feet in length, and about an inch and a quarter in diameter, having two circular handles, B B, at top, and a tapering curved emptying-spout, C, as a discharge-pipe, so as to empty the contents of the tube into a bottle without requiring the use of a funnel. D is the valvelid, made ot' leather or any material, jointed or hinged on the inside of the tube A to a circular ila-nge, E, permanently soldered to the inside of the tube, near to the top of the tapering lower end F of the tube A. At the tapered end or point of the tube is a perforated circular plate or sieve, G, permanently soldered onto the inside ofthe point, completely filling up the point, so that when the tester is thrust down through the bung-hole into the liquor in -the barrel no sediment or impurities in the liquor can pass up into the tube A, and as the liq uor, by the downward pressure on the tester, is forced upward, the valve-lid D rises and allows the liquor to ill the tube A; and the instant the tester is raised the valve-lid D falls upon the circular ledge or flange E, resting closely and horizontally upon it, completely preventing the liquor from lowin g down, the tubeA holding the required quantity of liquor, until the top of the tube is turned downward, for the purpose of emptying the liquor through the curved spout C into a bottle or any other receptacle. Y

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The tubular tester A, With its curved emptying-spout G at top, valve-lid D, iiange E, and ltering-sieve Gr below, constructed, combined, and operating as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

F. BELLEN.

Witnesses J. FRANKLIN REIGART,

E. C. WEAVER. 

